Case report of serious cardiac insufficiency complicated by syncope
Galrinho, A.; Carpinteiro, L.; Abreu, P.; Roquete, J.; Ferreira, R.
Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia Orgao Oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia 18(1): 59-60
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0870-2551 PMID: 10091526 Document Number: 502507
The authors describe a case of a patient with congestive heart failure complicated by syncope, hypotension and a transitory state of vigil coma. The transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiogram showed a huge mass that occupied almost totally the right ventricle causing sever obstruction. The patient was submitted to surgery and a resection of the mass with reconstruction of the free right ventricle wall was done. The histopathology revealed to be a leiomyosarcoma. There was a previous history of an uterine surgery.